![]() ![]() About 150 Marines, 100 of which were wounded, remained waist deep in the water, suffering rapidly mounting casualties from strafing by several machine gun nests on the end of the pier, in the sunken ship, and by numerous snipers in abandoned AmTracs and LCVPs. The troops had suffered many casualties on landing and the beach was covered with dead and wounded. Two disabled LCVPs claimed her attention and she arrived at the Line of Departure reporting to Lieutenant FLETCHER as the LCVPs were returning. She continued assistant control boat work under Lieutenant FLETCHER in the vicinity of the PURSUIT until dawn the following morning (D plus 1 day) at which time orders were received to land the waves on Beach Red 2. PURSUIT in company with the rest of the boats from the U.S.S. ![]() 13, Salvage, went into the water at dawn on D-Day, and worked as assistant control boat to the Boat Group Commander (Lieutenant FLETCHER), until mid-afternoon at which time orders were received to report to the U.S.S. The following is Lt.(j.g.) Heimberger's portion of the Tarawa Action Report: In all, the two were credited with rescuing 150 Marines that day, Albert with 70. Albert's small boat was damaged, so he commandeered a Higgins boat, and made, along with Fletcher, at least two more round trips to the reef to rescue the wounded, all the while being under the same heavy fire barrage as the Marines they were rescuing. Noticing this, Fletcher and Albert immediately came around and began to take aboard wounded Marines, carried them back to the ship, from which they were transferred to larger units for treatment. ![]() Meanwhile, the boats carrying 1/8 became hung up on the reef (the neap tide was even lower than the prior day), and came under heavy fire. After receiving the signal for 1/8 Marines to land, they organized the boats into waves and led them across the line of departure. Jack Fletcher, in overseeing the boats that were to land the 1 Battalion, 8th Marines on Red Two. He, in a small boat (not a landing craft), was assisting the Boat Control Officer, Lt. However, like most officers, he had other duties. His job was to survey damaged equipment on the beach to determine what could be salvaged, repaired and reused. He retired from show business in the mid 1990s. (bio by: The Perplexed Historian)Īlbert (Heimberger) was the Salvage Officer on Sheridan. After it ended, Eddie Albert returned to the screen, garnering a second Academy Award nomination for best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1972 film "The Heartbreak Kid", and enjoying success in motion pictures such as "The Longest Yard" (1974) and "Escape to Witch Mountain" (1975). Co-starring with Eva Gabor, the series ran from 1965 until 1971. In the 1960s he appeared in the films "The Longest Day (1962) and "Captain Newman, M.D." (1963) before landing "Green Acres" role that he would come to most associated with. In the 1950s his motion picture career revived with successful roles in films such as "Carrie" (1952), "Oklahoma!" (1955), "Teahouse of the August Moon" (1956), "Attack!" (1956) and "The Sun Also Rises" (1957), and h received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in William Wyler's "Roman Holiday" in 1953. He is credited with braving enemy fire during 26 rescue missions saving wounded United States Marines, and was awarded the Bronze Star with a combat ‘V.' After his discharge from the service he married actress Margo in December 1945, with whom he had two children (one being actor Edward Albert Jr.). Enlisting in the United States Navy during World War II, he was an active participant in the Battle of Tarawa in November, 1943, one of most savage battles in the Pacific Theatre. He made his motion picture debut in the military academy comedy "Brother Rat" in 1938, and went on to co-star in "Brother Rat and a Baby" and "Four Wives" in 1939. His career began on radio, and appeared on the earliest test for television in 1936. Born Edward Albert Heimberger, he is best remembered for his role of lawyer-turned-farmer ‘Oliver Wendell Douglas' on the classic television comedy series "Green Acres". ![]()
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